According to Michael Trausch: While burning my CPU.
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> I am wondering about formatting a floppy to just slightly higher than
> 1440kb, so that I can fit the Lynx 2.8.1 source code on to it (.tar.gz'd).
> The du from lynx2-8-1.tar.gz is as follows:
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> 1492 lynx2-8-1.tar.gz
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> Which looks to me as if it's just *slightly* larger than the size of a
> floppy. First, am I right? And second, how do I format the disk
> (reliably, hopefully) to a higher format than 1440k?
There are tools for this, sorry i dont know where, however you can always
use the -M option with tar, -M splits the archive.
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> - Mike
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